The veteran has been granted service connection for a low back disability, including as secondary to his already service-connected right knee disability.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the veteran's recurrent low back pain is proximately due to or the result of his service-connected right knee disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative Disc Disease (DDD) at the L4-L5 level, Recurrent low back pain
- How they argued it
- Aggravation of a pre-existing condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 6, 2006
- Citation
- 0609998
What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
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